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		<title>By: Belatrix</title>
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		<dc:creator>Belatrix</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those that don&#039;t have to cross keep cutting back. Those that must cross, must cross. We feel sorry for them. As for jury duty, one is provided with a buss pass initially. You can get another each time you leave the courthouse. BigBlockChev has voiced soooooooooooooooo many of the citizen&#039;s frustrations with this fiasco which keeps on going like the energizer bunny.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those that don&#8217;t have to cross keep cutting back. Those that must cross, must cross. We feel sorry for them. As for jury duty, one is provided with a buss pass initially. You can get another each time you leave the courthouse. BigBlockChev has voiced soooooooooooooooo many of the citizen&#8217;s frustrations with this fiasco which keeps on going like the energizer bunny.
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		<title>By: pgroup</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lawsuit is both appropriate and on the horizon. It is unconstitutional to set in place rising obligations (to be borne by taxpayers) that cannot be renegotiated. It&#039;s called taxation without representation. Also, Chief Justice Roberts (in his Obamacare opinion) made sure that the &quot;fee is not a tax&quot; nonsense is dead forever. 

Or maybe we should start an initiative to shut down the whole tolling scheme and dump the bonds on the state as it should be. That&#039;s how we finance the ferries and there is generally a choice about using them. 

I cannot wait until I get a jury duty letter or a court summons. Either one better come with a pre-paid debit card.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A lawsuit is both appropriate and on the horizon. It is unconstitutional to set in place rising obligations (to be borne by taxpayers) that cannot be renegotiated. It&#8217;s called taxation without representation. Also, Chief Justice Roberts (in his Obamacare opinion) made sure that the &#8220;fee is not a tax&#8221; nonsense is dead forever. </p>
<p>Or maybe we should start an initiative to shut down the whole tolling scheme and dump the bonds on the state as it should be. That&#8217;s how we finance the ferries and there is generally a choice about using them. </p>
<p>I cannot wait until I get a jury duty letter or a court summons. Either one better come with a pre-paid debit card.
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		<title>By: sunlover</title>
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		<dc:creator>sunlover</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some great comments especially related to how incompetent WSDOT is and will stay until they change department heads and departmental managers she hired.  The Queen and her lacky Paula should be ashamed of what they &quot;didn&#039;t&quot; do with all the money they spent.  Let me think of a few - Highway 18 cost overrun; Highway 16 cost overrun (taken from snow money); 520 pontoons sinking; hiring a Texas company who couldn&#039;t get their act together on tolling and then actually extending their contract if they gave up code to a software product that isn&#039;t working.  Losing 100&#039;s of thousands pay by mail tickets until an audit months(?) after the fact found them to be too old to chase down. No penalty to the great Texas company either as WSDOT has said they will get their money. It is constant with WSDOT.  They don&#039;t care as they see it as their &quot;right&quot; of passage, because of who they are and what they do, and we citizens don&#039;t know any better.

The Tolls will go up and the traffic will go down.  The tolls will again go up and the traffic will again go down.  They will be losing money each year.  They can undo their screwed up financing scheme with the bonds but they choose to ignore that avenue and rather run up the tolls to those who travel.

Their Pay by Mail program has not shared how &quot;well&quot; they are doing.  I wonder why.  They hired a bunch of administrative judges (laid off liquor store employees) to deal with the ones who do not pay in 80 days.  No word how that program is doing.  

WSDOT management should be ashamed but they are not.  They think this is their job whether they do it right or not.  They were appointed or asked to do it, not whether they could do it.  That simple question was missing when they took the job.  But would they have anwered it truthfully?  We can see the results of that answer daily with the number of orange cones, traffic detours, all waiting for our daily commute to pay more to get to work taking longer each day.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some great comments especially related to how incompetent WSDOT is and will stay until they change department heads and departmental managers she hired.  The Queen and her lacky Paula should be ashamed of what they &#8220;didn&#8217;t&#8221; do with all the money they spent.  Let me think of a few &#8211; Highway 18 cost overrun; Highway 16 cost overrun (taken from snow money); 520 pontoons sinking; hiring a Texas company who couldn&#8217;t get their act together on tolling and then actually extending their contract if they gave up code to a software product that isn&#8217;t working.  Losing 100&#8242;s of thousands pay by mail tickets until an audit months(?) after the fact found them to be too old to chase down. No penalty to the great Texas company either as WSDOT has said they will get their money. It is constant with WSDOT.  They don&#8217;t care as they see it as their &#8220;right&#8221; of passage, because of who they are and what they do, and we citizens don&#8217;t know any better.</p>
<p>The Tolls will go up and the traffic will go down.  The tolls will again go up and the traffic will again go down.  They will be losing money each year.  They can undo their screwed up financing scheme with the bonds but they choose to ignore that avenue and rather run up the tolls to those who travel.</p>
<p>Their Pay by Mail program has not shared how &#8220;well&#8221; they are doing.  I wonder why.  They hired a bunch of administrative judges (laid off liquor store employees) to deal with the ones who do not pay in 80 days.  No word how that program is doing.  </p>
<p>WSDOT management should be ashamed but they are not.  They think this is their job whether they do it right or not.  They were appointed or asked to do it, not whether they could do it.  That simple question was missing when they took the job.  But would they have anwered it truthfully?  We can see the results of that answer daily with the number of orange cones, traffic detours, all waiting for our daily commute to pay more to get to work taking longer each day.
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		<title>By: WhatInThe</title>
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		<dc:creator>WhatInThe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#039;ve got to be kidding me!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;ve got to be kidding me!
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		<title>By: Stinkfoot</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stinkfoot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That’s 1.6 million fewer vehicles than was projected to cross just two years ago, and just 3,500 more vehicles that crossed during the 2011 fiscal year.&quot;

There are several grammatical errors in this one sentence alone.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That’s 1.6 million fewer vehicles than was projected to cross just two years ago, and just 3,500 more vehicles that crossed during the 2011 fiscal year.&#8221;</p>
<p>There are several grammatical errors in this one sentence alone.
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		<title>By: DEKOVEN</title>
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		<dc:creator>DEKOVEN</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 04:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#039;t use that bridge unless you absolutely have to.  I truly feel for those who live on the Peninsula and have to commute.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t use that bridge unless you absolutely have to.  I truly feel for those who live on the Peninsula and have to commute.
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		<title>By: pastor</title>
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		<dc:creator>pastor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 04:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NO to another toll increase.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NO to another toll increase.
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		<title>By: firemannotfirefighter</title>
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		<dc:creator>firemannotfirefighter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This State needs to Pull it&#039;s Head out of the Southern region.... The State relies on Gas Taxes to maintain roads (and other things) as well as tolls to maintain or build bridges (or other things). Then the State and local municipalities go out of their way to encourage car pooling, mass transit and light rail. When those work, guess what; revenue goes down! So what does the State do? Raise the taxes (fees or tolls or whatever you want to call them) again and then continue to encourage people to reduce their carbon footprint, or carpool etc.... We are in a VISCOUS cycle where the State needs to prioritize their spending. I guess the type of inbred thinking that this cycle requires is what happens when you get 1 party rule for a generation@]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This State needs to Pull it&#8217;s Head out of the Southern region&#8230;. The State relies on Gas Taxes to maintain roads (and other things) as well as tolls to maintain or build bridges (or other things). Then the State and local municipalities go out of their way to encourage car pooling, mass transit and light rail. When those work, guess what; revenue goes down! So what does the State do? Raise the taxes (fees or tolls or whatever you want to call them) again and then continue to encourage people to reduce their carbon footprint, or carpool etc&#8230;. We are in a VISCOUS cycle where the State needs to prioritize their spending. I guess the type of inbred thinking that this cycle requires is what happens when you get 1 party rule for a generation@
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		<title>By: Kevlarw</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevlarw</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kilmer, Seaquist, etc.....they&#039;re nothing but a joke....but now that they are elected they will tell you what ever you wish to hear to remain in their do nothing offices....good bye, good luck....]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kilmer, Seaquist, etc&#8230;..they&#8217;re nothing but a joke&#8230;.but now that they are elected they will tell you what ever you wish to hear to remain in their do nothing offices&#8230;.good bye, good luck&#8230;.
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		<title>By: MCM</title>
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		<dc:creator>MCM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh yes, and BigBlocChev, you are correct on all accounts. When the so called engineers designed the new on ramps and off ramps all through I-5 Tacoma and the Nalley Valley, a 15 year old could have told you that it was a horrible design. The dead man&#039;s corner on the east bound 16 Sprague exit pretty much sums up the nightmare........incompetence and our tax money being burned in a bottomless money pit. You can&#039;t make this stuff up,nobody would believe it!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh yes, and BigBlocChev, you are correct on all accounts. When the so called engineers designed the new on ramps and off ramps all through I-5 Tacoma and the Nalley Valley, a 15 year old could have told you that it was a horrible design. The dead man&#8217;s corner on the east bound 16 Sprague exit pretty much sums up the nightmare&#8230;&#8230;..incompetence and our tax money being burned in a bottomless money pit. You can&#8217;t make this stuff up,nobody would believe it!
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